Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.